(PRESS RELEASE) -- Las Vegas, Nevada – In what could prove to be
her toughest challenge yet, UFC® women’s bantamweight champion
Ronda
Rousey (8-0, fighting out of Venice, Calif.) squares off
against undefeated wrestling sensation Sara McMann
(7-0, fighting out of Gaffney, SC) in a battle of Olympic medalists
at UFC® 170 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center Saturday, Feb. 22. A
bronze medal winner in Judo at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,
Rousey recently defeated her bitter rival Miesha Tate
at UFC 168 to retain the women’s bantamweight belt and remain the
divison’s only champion. Now she takes on McMann, who comes in as
the most decorated wrestler in the weight class, having also earned
Olympic silver at the 2004 games in Athens in free-style
wrestling.

In addition to the Rousey-McMann tilt, (No. 3) Rashad
Evans (19-3, fighting out of Boca Raton, Fla.), a former light
heavyweight champion, battles the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand
Prix winner Daniel
Cormier (13-0, fighting out of San Jose, Calif.) in his debut
at the 205-pound weight class. Evans comes into the bout sporting
consecutive wins over Dan
Henderson and Chael Sonnen
while Cormier is looking to keep his unblemished professional
record and make a statement in his new division.

The card also features Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace (No. 6) Demian Maia
(18-5, fighting out of Sao Paulo, Brazil) matching up against
Canadian prodigy and Georges St.
Pierre training partner (no. 4) Rory
MacDonald (15-2, fighting out of Montreal, Canada) in a battle
of Top 10-ranked welterweights.

Tickets for UFC®170: ROUSEY vs. MCMANN, presented by BUD LIGHT®, go
on sale Friday, Jan. 10 at 10 a.m. PT and are priced at $450, $325,
$200, $150, $90 and $50. Tickets will be available at all Las Vegas
Ticketmaster locations (select Smith’s Food and Drug Centers and
Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. To
charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at
(800) 745-3000. Tickets also are available for purchase at
www.mandalaybay.com or www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices do not
include applicable service charges.

UFC® Fight Club™ members will have the opportunity to purchase
tickets to this event Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. PT via the
website www.ufcfightclub.com. A special Internet ticket pre-sale
will be available to UFC newsletter subscribers Thursday, Jan. 9
starting at 10 a.m. PT. To access this presale, users must register
for the UFC newsletter through UFC.com.

UFC®170: ROUSEY vs. MCMANN will be available live on Pay-Per-View
at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on UFC.TV, iN DEMAND, DirecTV, DISH
Network, Avail-TVN, and in Canada on BellTV, Shaw Communications,
Sasktel, and Viewer’s Choice Canada for a suggested retail price of
$44.99 US/$49.99 CAN for Standard Definition and $54.99 US/$59.99
CAN for High -Definition.

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Toronto, Beijing, Singapore and Sao Paulo, UFC produces more than
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thousands of hours of programming on FOX Sports 1 and FOX Sports 2
including the longest-running sports reality show on television,
The Ultimate Fighter®.

In addition to its reach on FOX, UFC programming is broadcast in
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